Archive

Last Saturday, while walking the streets, I passed by the construction of a massive tent. Turns out, a California based company named Batter Blaster was trying to break the Guiness Book of World Records by creating the most amount of pancakes in an eight hour period. One day later, I was paid to lead three teams to help break this world record. We were able to shatter record by creating roughly 80,000 pancakes. I don’t think I want to eat or flip another pancake for months.

It’s events like the this one that make this trip not only fun, but also educational. I’m starting to learn about human interactions in the social sphere. And so, I’ve been practicing my social engineering, not in the negative notion of using people for an end goal, but in the positive notion that building rapport is important in forming relationships.

The large majority of my trip from paid museums, excursions, and tours to riding horses, boating, and music CD’s has been free. All of these were started with a mere introduction to a perfect stranger. Goodness begets goodness, and if others see that you are genuine in your attitude, they will open up and trust you. Dale Carnegie, an awesome public speaker and coruscating personality from generations before said this:

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

It’s a shame that some of life’s most important lessons are not taught in school; it’s a code of the streets.